I was not aware that in 2012 they had removed the oversight of business aviation. In fact, the TSB made a recommendation back around 2009 following an accident that occurred in 2007 that indicated that the Canadian Business Aviation Association, which was at that time responsible for safety management oversight of that sector of the industry, had not been effective at doing that, so Transport Canada, in fact, took back responsibility for oversight for audits and inspection for that segment of the industry. We were briefed by Transport Canada officials that their intent was to—and this goes back to August 2016—reduce or redirect resources away from planned oversight of that segment of the industry, which has a very good safety record compared to other segments of the aviation industry, in favour of redirecting their resources to higher priority or higher risk areas that they'd identified. But we were not aware that they had stopped surveillance.
On April 4th, 2017. See this statement in context.